Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

Blue Asylum

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Blindsight

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.

Mario Van Peebles

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Guy Davenport

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Kenneth Lonergan

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

The Hours

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction.

I Wrote This For You

The Love of Christ in us never fails". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Jesus + Nothing = Everything

I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.

Radically Ordinary

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail... it takes backbone to lead the life you want.

Revolutionary Road

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Revolutionary Road

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Sorcerer's Apprentice

Always have a backup plan in case you fail. Prepare for another business.

The Secrets of Business

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

So Brave, Young and Handsome

Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.

Shattered Illusions

No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.

The Midnight Heir

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life